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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) A substance.
(b) A question.
(c) An argument.
(d) A pseudo-object.

2. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Rappaport.
(b) Hartmann.
(c) Freud.
(d) Kris.

3. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Missing sex organs.
(b) Death.
(c) Violence.
(d) His father.

4. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Deficient.

5. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His parents' love.
(b) His father.
(c) His toys.
(d) His mother's body.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

2. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

3. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

4. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

5. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

(see the answer key)

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